Re: An Addition to the List

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-01-05 16:05:12

For those who found what I wrote incomprehensible, Alex’s rendition of the distinction might be more readable:

I couldn’t quite grasp the logic of the above until I downloaded and tried UltraRecall myself. I now see that these are two differing routes taken—in varying implementations- by knowledge organisers: (a) organising a tree of selection criteria/categories that apply to a flat list of items or (b) organising the items themselves on a tree/outline.

Depending on the route taken, different solutions re overlapping groups will be applied: in (a) the same item might belong to more than one categories while in (b) cloning is necessary for the item to exist in more than one positions in the outline.

The (a) route appears then more suitable for organising items that are already there, or created outside the organising program, such as files in a disk, since only their attributes need to be moved around. Route (b) is probably the shortest way to creating a info/knowledge base from scratch, by brainstorming, developing concepts or just note-taking while working on a project. This is what I’ve done with Hyperclip, ending up with a 2,5 Mb basic infobase that I can easily carry around.

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